biography
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| lived:
| (1870–1956)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Brtnice, S Czech Republic (formerly Pirnitz, Austria). He studied in Vienna, was a leader of the Vienna ‘Secession’ group (1899 - seceding from the traditional Viennese style), and in 1903 founded the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), devoted to arts and crafts. He himself designed metalwork, glass, and furniture. His main architectural achievements were the white-stuccoed Purkersdorf Sanatorium in Austria (1903–5) and Stoclet House in Brussels (1905–11). He was city architect of Vienna from 1920, and designed the Austrian pavilion for the 1934 Venice Bienniale. |
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